The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-03-25

Belmont.
wild geese were flying over the town on
Tuesday.
The grouudhog's reputation as a weather
rrophpt IS gone.
as being serf0uIv fiI.
All kinds Job printing neatly done at
the FREEMAN Office.
Grape vines should be trimmed before
the sap begins to rise.
A Huntingdon county man has killed
twenty-spveu foxes this winter
Fannie W. Nixon has been appointed
postmistress at Indiana by the President
The next thing to appear will be the or
gsn-grinder and after him the potato bug.
Scarlet fever IS prevailing to an alarming
extent in tie neiphborhoOd Of Chest Springs.
If Won wish Hats, Roots Shoes and Rub
hers at cost 90 to the Variety Store Of G. T.
Roberts
Last week Thomas ID. Davis. of Cam
h-a township, was granted pension Of s.
per month.
David NJ Jones. ~ Pittsburgh. formerIv
Of this place, spent a few days in town du-
ring the present week.
An EdenHuru- Clarion county. Justice
or the Peace married a couple the other day
and took sp7rP-rihs for his fee.
Curtin Evans. who for the past three
years has heah resident OF OcaIa. Florida
FRIDAY, returned to this place last week
-PhHipshurC people voted the other dav
20 build n sixteen room public school build
Ing 10 cost when completed, $40. 900.
A Huntingdon county man claims to
have A pumpkin raised in 1885. which Is as
sound as the dav II was taken from the vine
A perrnfssivp spmaphore signal has been
erected at the depot telegraph tower at Lilly,
whose lights can he seen from all directions.
1t ia said that the company building the
railroad from KsylOr's station to Mehaffv.
Intend having the cars running this coming
fall
The Ben's Creek people, between Lilly
and Sonman. are wanting a postofice, and
petition with that object in view will soon
De circulated.
Samuel Ssnsabaugh, a P. R. R., fireman
at Couemauph. formerly Of this place. receiv.
ed an injury from lifting one day last week
and he had to Law of for a few days.
The appearance Of the blue bird as a
harbi0Qer Of spring is much more numerous
I1 the columns Of the newspapers than any
Indications Of spring are in the March
weather.
The CoaIport Standard Of last week
says a special train passed over the Bells
Gap railroad on Monday night. loaded with
Italians, wh0 are now working on the ex-
tension Of The road.
Frank George, Of Lilly, was kicked on
the right hand by a mule, one day last week
while at work in the mines Of the Sonman
shaft colIiery. ard will be compelled to be
of duty for a short time
Mrs. Rose Quinn. a resident of Johns
town for upwards Of forty years and mother
OF Mr.. James Quinn of the firm of Gels FOs-
& Quinn, died at her home in JOhnstown.
on Tuesday, aged seventy-fOur years.
"A u year old boy named Emanuel
Male, son Of David Male. Of West Hunting
don, was killed at Huntington on Saturday
while crossing the railroad between two
sections of q train. His BODY was cut in
two and death resulted instantly
DR. d. VIII, a Johnstowu veterinary
surgeon, while ascending n cellar stairway
at Swank & Sons hardware store at that
place on Saturday evening. fell backward,
breaking his right leg below the knee He
was taken to HIS home and attended by a
surgeon.
Gentlemen and ladies intending to at
tond the Normal schools in Ebensburg
during the coming summer will find pleas
ant and convenient boarding house with Mr.
W II. Byrne, on the corner OF High and
Caroline streets, Ebensburg Pa Terms
$3.50 per week.
The lecture given by Father Smith at
WImore, on last Sunday evening, was quite
entertaining and instructive and was we'll
attended The Reverend gentleman IS an
easy and graceful taIker. and the subject,
"St. Patrick and his Children" ," was appre.
ciAted bv his audience
Mr.. John G. Evans, Of Thurman. Ohio.
a Mexican veteran who was a member Of /.
The old Cambria Guards that went from this |
place 70 the Mexican war, is ling Ebens- /
burg visit, after an absence o. thirty-fve /
years. Mr.. Evans Is brother OF Evan c., |
and David f. Evans of this place.
The Altoona Times says: Any person
k1owing the present address Of John Amy.
or EmiGh, who lived near the mountain in
t1e vicinity Of Altoona, and who worked in
the Government blacksmith shop at City
Point, Va. in 1864 and 65. will confer a
favor by addressing Postmaster Patton.
We call the attention OF our readers to
the card n Messrs. II. ChiIds & Co Of Pitts
burgh. advertising their very stylish and
reliable $500 Calf Shoes for men. These
wei known goods rank the very highest
among dealers. and those wanting a first
class article at a moderate figure. would do
wei 70 ask the merchant Of whom they pur-
chase their Shoes fof them.
On Monday evening two young men,
named ". Y. McGeary and J: Campbell,
were walking along the track on their way I
nome from Latrobe, and when near Beatty's .
station thev we're struck by a west-bound
freight train. Campbell was comparatively . ;
lH.niurpd. while McGeary had an arm brok-
en-, was badly cut about the head and in
lured internaIIy,an will probably die.
About O'Clock on Sunday morning T.
William Brennan. brakeman on the Altoo- :
1a division, fell from the 1eck Of a car while
near the CD Office and sustained a lacerated
wound of the scalp He was taken to the :
hospital, where the wound was dressed. He
Is st.' an inmate Of that institution. Mr.
Brennan is single man, % years of age,
md resides at Second avenue and Fourth
street 0
The feast of ST. Benedict was celebrated